My father had died. Sooner or later, I know it would be my time.
I love Cassandra too much that I could not bear to imagine seeing her losing a child, if we had one.
And so I left her, hoping that the curse will end with my death...

From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo & Mysterious World:
Ten tales from the paranormal including UFO's USO's The Bermuda Triangle and the terrifying affair of Spring-Heeled Jack

The ghost of Nathaniel Hawthorne stalks the parlor at the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. Edward Fane, ley line hunter, visits the Old Manse. What he finds there is not just Hawthorne, but a mysterious woman from his past. "Mesmerizing, nuanced and atmospheric, a perfect setting for a tale of the mingling of time periods."--Erika Robuck, author of House of Hawthorne: A novel.

In this delightful short story, enterprising actress and amateur sleuth Isobel Spice faces down a theater ghost to learn the truth behind an actor’s mysterious death during a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan’s gothic operetta "Ruddigore."

Don’t Count to Ten is a children’s ghost story. When three siblings move into a new house, they realize very quickly how wonderfully strange their new neighborhood is. There is a strange old man Gary Getzelman he lives across the street, and he is always around. All the houses have their own name and the kids play outside, without their cell phones. Gary is friendly but stern, and he has been hi

A homework assignment leads best friends, Samantha and Jake, on an adventure into the woods beyond the local cemetery. They meet the caretaker of the cemetery who tricks them into searching for a legendary fortune. The pair encounter many supernatural obstacles in their search for hidden riches as they try to find their way home.

In this philosophical parable, a young man copes with death by discovering himself along the shores of a spiritual passageway. As he reminisces about his past, he is faced with incorporeal beings that have the power to either guide or corrupt him.

Emma visits a small unique gallery within inner Melbourne. It is a place where people use art as a method to find closure or to seek answers to long held questions. One piece of art decides that Emma is the one that can help, a sculpture of a hand. It sits on a stand, neglected and longing for attention. When Emma stops to admire it, it grabs her and takes her to a beach to save a lost soul.

Some say seeing ghosts is a gift, but after losing her job, Dumdie Swartz says, "Hogwash". After trying to avoid them all her life, she'd become homeless after she lost her job because of them. Now she's in a homeless shelter with a ghost haunting her room. Dumdie must find the ghost's will if she's to stay off the streets.